Zenni Glasses

My daughter often introduces me to new products she's tried and loved. This summer Tiffany told me about a website called Zenni that sells very reasonably priced prescription glasses. She said her single vision glasses cost her just $39.

I was really dubious, but I decided to try it out. I'd just changed the lens only on my Costco bifocal glasses for $146.59 so I already had my pupillary distance on the paper they'd given me.

The Zenni site has you input your photo so you can try out glasses online. Actually that was rather a lot of fun.

They also give you instructions on how to measure your pupillary distance if you don't have that measurement.

I was glad I already had that information from the Costco receipt because they measured my eyes for me.

Well, the glasses were cheap, but then I added Transition and anti-reflective coating and the price did jump to $88.85. This was only a single vision lens for distance. But that was all, plus a bit for shipping.

I thought that was pretty darn reasonable since it included the frame.

I couldn't wait for it to arrive.

It didn't take long. It arrived in a little over a week and I thought the quality was quite decent. I compared the lens to the Costco glasses I'd bought the week before and they appeared similar.

My sister-in-law said she preferred sunglasses because the Costco Transition lens didn't darken enough.

I used the Costco glasses today and she was right. It doesn't darken a whole lot and I was still getting a glare. Nothing horrible, but it wasn't perfect.

I thought I'd try an experiment.

I took both glasses outside and put them on white paper.

The Costco glasses are on top. The Zennis are at the bottom.

The Zenni glasses did get darker.

Very interesting...

I'm trying to persuade Art to get new glasses, but he says he doesn't need one.

Hmmm... Granted, since my far vision is actually pretty good, my friends did ask me why I needed another pair.

Ummmmm.....